The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1887-07-30


The pulpit of the EIktuu Presbyterian
church Will he filled on SUNDAY hext, morn
Ing and evening by Roy. W. W ii"herton
I former pastor.
Tie fall term Of Friend, Select school
Calvert, will commence ON Monday, Sep
temhrr :, with Florence y. Dance, the for
mer principal, in charge.
A festival wilI h. held at y sbury NJ. f
church, Thursday aud Friday, August 4th
and 9TH Ii the weather is not fair it will
be held next good day.
Coroner Perry Iitzenbcrg, is engaged il
repaintiug a dwelling near Earlville, he
longing to Mr.. Jeremiah G. Price. The Cor
oner is always ready to attend to either u
| his TWO businesses.
The Citizens Club, of Zion, will give n
excursion to Colchester on Thursday mex
on the steamer Chester" The boat leave:
| North East at 80 \. NJ This will doubt
less be one ono OF the NEST enjoyable eXcur
sIonSipn of the season.
The roads throughout the county are ii
a very bad condition caused by the heavy
rains of late. Many complaints are made
| at the office of the clerk to the commits
sjoners. The commissioners will probably
meet soon and take some action in the
matter.
| The committee appointed by the Mary.
land State Farmers Association for the pur
pose of preparing hl'l to present to The
nest Legislature equalizing ta~ati"n met
on Thursday at Barnum Hotel Baltimore
Or. Il. c. Mackall is a member of the com.
.nittee.
--Rev. j. d. Carey, pastor of the Elkton
Catholic church has awarded the contract
for new tin roof for tie church to j. o.
sullivan of Newark, Del who Was the lowest
bidder The other bidder were Chas Il.
! J4misou and John L. Alexander, OF Elkton,
and Henry b. Cordes, OF North East.
Captain Wherlow. who had been lying
dan gerously i'll of conclusion of the brain
| tor several weeks caused by being accden-
/ tally struck on the head, passed the crisis
} of hi, disease the latter part of last week,
aud his physician, DIR. j. w. Cooper, per-
! mittcI his removal to his home in Camden,
| New Jersey.
The services at the Elkton Catholic
church tomorrow morning will be held at
9 30 . clock instead OF II o'clock as usual.
| The reason Tor this is that the pastor Rev.
j. d. Carey will participate i'll the laying OF
| the corner stone of st. AIMS church, Will
mington, of which Rev. Father Dollard for
rnerly OF Elkton, is pastor.
| Mrs. Louisa NJ. Cruikshank, wife OF
Mr.. J. Chandler Cruikshank, formerly OF
| Cecilton, died last week at her home in
Philadelphia aged about fifty years. She
was a sister of Judge David y. Davis of the
| Orphans Court of Cecil Co. Her remains
were Inferred in the family lot in st. Steph-
en- 5 cemetery, Sassatras Neck, on Monday
afternoon last.
The Groone Guards, Capt. WIN. Il.
| Puruell, commanding, leave Elkton on
Monday evening for the eucanpment at
Hagerstown. They will march to Sngerly
and go by cars from there TO Hagerstown.
! Capt. George Il. Ash, al jutant of the Third
| Battalion will leave town on Sunday next
for the encampment, his duties requiring
that he should be on the ground before the
| home company.
When Mr.. William Dunbar, tie black
smith, went to his shop on Wednesday
morning he found dog which was badly
| crippled, having been run over by the ears
on the railroad near by some time during
the night. The animal was large red
bay ducking dog belonging to Capt. WIN.
Wright. One of its feet was badly crushed
and part of its tail had been cnt off II
had blei greatly.
The Changers excursion to BAY Ridge
| on Thursday last on the steamer "Chester'
was patronzed by about 40 persons. About
so of these boarded the steamer at Elkton
and the remainder at Georges and Mercy 5
wharves, on Elk river. Bay Ridge was
reached about LEO T. NJ, and the steamer
reached the wharf at Elkton on the return
trip shortly before II Z. NJ. The day was
very pleasantly spent by all the excursion
| lists.
A rather elderly man entered our town
one afternoon this week. He appeared
very warm as he walked into 4 stationary
store and purchased an envelope He stated
| that he was writing home for funds, being
dead broke He had started two days pre-
viously 10 walk from Philadelphia to I:alt!-
more, and had reached this far on his jour
nev. He belonged in Baltimore. hut had
got on spree in Philadelphia, spent his
money and even sold some of his clothing
! To use his own words cine Went TO philad.
| elphia ike a gentleman, and was going
back like tramp"
The Eureka Fertilizer Company of Ceci
| county, manufacturers of pure bone frrtil
! lars, publish a new card III THE WIG o
today. This company had the misfortune tt
! have their works burned on Oct. l4th, 1856
! bu- hey have since been rebuilt on a large
scale replete with improven rents. They
manufacture Pure Raw Bone Meal, Pure
Dissolved Bone, Farmers Favorite Bone
etc &c The works of this company ar,
| situated on the line of one railroad and
| close to . rival one. Being able to get cheaI
trans portation they are able 20 sell at lowest
price, possible for goods of their high stan
dard
Henry Spencer, aged 26 yea ), who sho
| aud killed Scott Dawson, at Rawlings, lie
gheny county, Md, on July 18th has con
fessed the murder. He came to Cecil count,
in March last and worked on the farm of Il
| f. Riley, near I;1wlandvlle, until tn
early part of June. Spencer states tina
he did the shooting out of revenge 70
the assault by Dawson on the latter's cousi
who afterwards became Spencer's wife, an
is now dead. In his statement made o.
Thursday he states that he told Dawson be
fore he fired that he was going to kill him
He describes the shooting quite coolly. III
had evidently brooded over the wrong don
his wife and meditated revenge long time
The Baltimore Her0h says: A wlt
sonnet hing almost unLeard of to day, AM
yet Tuckahoe Neck has such an anima
roaming in its woods. Some time ago
gentleman came that way with a numbe
of Western horses, ono of which Victor l.
Emerson finally became the owner. Put
ting it i'll the pasture, 1t escaped therefron
and is now wandering in secret places. Mr.
Emerson has seen it number of times
but has not been able to capture it, though
he has had great deal of experience OF tn
Western frontier with the lasso. 1t seem
impossible to find a horse fleet of foo
enough to approach efficiently near 30 us
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